Library

Explore SVRWA’s library. Browse the stacks and reserve books, cd’s or tapes by contacting Kayvan Sylvan, our wonderful librarian, by filling out the form below. He will bring them to the next meeting. Please indicate the desired item in the message section.

Renting the RWA Session CD’s costs $1 per month per CD. Renting books or tapes is $0.50 per month per item.

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CD’s and Tapes

RWA 2005 Session Library on CD’s
RWA 2004 Session Library on CD’s
RWA Tape Library

Books

BUSINESS OF WRITING

  • Guide to Getting Successfully Published – Ray Mungo
  • How to Write & Sell Your First Novel – Collier & Leighton
  • Write it: Sell it – How to Submit to a Publisher – Phyllis Taylor Pianka
  • How to Be Your Own Literary Agent – Richard Curtis
  • The Indispensable Writer's Guide – Scott Edelstein
  • Literary Agents: What They Do & How They Do It – Michael Larsen
  • How to Get An Agent – Phyllis Taylor Pianka
  • Romance Writer's Pink Pages 199596 – Eve Paludan
  • Romance Writer's Sourcebook – Writer's Digest
  • Yes you Can! Facing Realty & Morale – Tips for the Aspiring Writer – Lazzeroni/Cathcart
  • A Writer's Guide to Book Publishing – Richard Balkin
  • 12 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started – Ben Bova

CRAFT OF WRITING

  • The Art of Romance Writing – Valerie Parv
  • Beginning Writer's Answer Book – Kirk Polking, ed.
  • Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes & Heroines – Tami Cowden
  • Dictionary of Concise Writing – Robt. Hartwell Fiske
  • Get That Novel Started – Donna Levin
  • How to Write a Romance and Get it Published – Kathryn Falk
  • How to Write Romances – Phyllis Pianka
  • How to Write a Synopsis (2 copies) – Phyllis Taylor Pianka
  • Plotting the Novel (2 copies) – Phyllis Taylor Pianka
  • How to Create Living Characters – Phyllis Taylor Pianka
  • 1,818 Ways to Write Better and Get Published – Scott Edelstein
  • Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction – Patricia Highsmith
  • Practical Tips for Writing Popular Fiction – Robyn Carr
  • Query Letters/ Cover Letters – Gordon Burgett
  • Scene and Structure – Jack Bickham
  • Shut Up! He Explained – William Noble
  • Techniques of the Selling Writer – Dwight Swain
  • 30 Steps to Becoming a Writer and Getting Published – Scott Edelstein
  • The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes – Jack M. Bickham
  • The 28 Biggest Writing Blunders – William Noble
  • The Writer's Journey – Christopher Vogler
  • The Writer's Notebook – Howard Junker, ed.
  • Writing Novels that Sell – Jack Bickham
  • You Can Write a Romance – Rita Clay Estrada & Rita Gallagher

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Emerging Voices 1999: a Collection of Writings by Adult Learners, Vol.IV
  • Goddesses in Every Woman – Jean Shinoda Bolen
  • Gods in Every Man- Jean Shinoda Bolen

MOTIVATION

  • All I Need to Know in Life I Learned From Romance Novels – Victoria M. Johnson
  • Wild Mind – Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg
  • Zen in the Art of Writing – Ray Bradbury

SUBGENRE

  • Heroines of Dixie – Katharine Jones
  • Memories of a Medieval Woman: Life & Times of Margery Kempe – Louise Collis
  • The Old West Quiz & Fact Book – Rod Gragg
  • Regency Realm Research Binder – the Beau Monde

REFERENCE

  • Dictionary of Foreign Words in English – John Ayto
  • Dictionary of Proverbs – Wordsworth
  • The Elements of Style – Strunk & White
  • Research Binder – Workshop handouts from Chapter Meetings – 2002 – 2003 – 2004
  • 1998 RWA National Conference in Anaheim – Handout & Binder
  • Writer's Market 2000 – Kirsten C. Holm. Editor